What laptop should I get?

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Mohammad

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So I'm thinking of buying a laptop but don't really know which one to buy... Please don't say Macbook because thats way off my budget which is Â£500/600.. It should be pretty decent and should be able to handle Photoshop well.. I'm thinking of getting something which has got an i5 processor in it but I think it may cost me bit more than my budget..

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which is great until you take it away from a mains supply. Battery life is around 1-2 hour.

Personally I'm waiting on apple to see what they release next (they will soon its more performance for the same power draw) and then if its no good I'm going with a 14" asus which has upto 12 hours battery if the price isn't stupid

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So I'm thinking of buying a laptop but don't really know which one to buy... Please don't say Macbook because thats way off my budget which is Â£500/600.. It should be pretty decent and should be able to handle Photoshop well.. I'm thinking of getting something which has got an i5 processor in it but I think it may cost me bit more than my budget..

I have that laptop (with a few customisations) and it's not bad for the money. Easily runs the Adobe Suite and isn't too big to lug around. (plus it's purple!) Reliable enough, haven't had any problems with it since I've had it.... plus it frees up my main machine so my boyfriend can use it lol

Renniks said:

In levi's head of knowledge. Not to mention the heating issues I'm positive a dell quad core would have.

It seems odd to buy a "high spec" laptop with a new high spec desktop. It would make more sense in my mind to get one with super long battery life or portability (or both? MBP 13" anyone? )

I have a high spec PC and the above laptop I'd love a mac but a) can't play games on a mac b) my boyfriend steals my PC (to play games on). c) I can create the same work on a PC that I would on a mac d) my student ed. of CS4 is a windows version e) I need a new car f) I do want a mac and miss using one errrr I'll stop now

I've not had any overheating on the laptop, but I do run it with a Belkin cooling thinger (technical term) Even when I don't use that it isn't unusually warm (did I mention it's purple?!)

Of course, it's no MBP, but it does the job well enough that I can take it to people, play the odd game, do all my work and not have to get angry at the ther half for stealing my decent machine

Oh ok, yea I think it's odd aswell but I already have a Eee PC which has long battery life but it can't handle Photoshop so was thinking I should get a laptop which can handle Photoshop and other programs well and instead of getting a low spec one (core 2 duo or something) I might aswell get one which has good spec (i5 or i7).. My HP Dv2500 Laptop is in it's last breath (which is like a family computer because I don't let anyone use my desktop) and if that dies then everyone will be using my desktop.. There seems to be some good deals around and I don't know if it will get any lower soon..

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Why are you using the USA site? thing s with Dell they have random deals. I got lucky with mine. Upgraded to the higher spec screen and backlit keyboard and got an extra gig of ram, larger hdd and free colour upgrade.

They're just a bit random with their deals. It did arrive within a week though which was nice

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Mohammad

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Why are you using the USA site? thing s with Dell they have random deals. I got lucky with mine. Upgraded to the higher spec screen and backlit keyboard and got an extra gig of ram, larger hdd and free colour upgrade.

They're just a bit random with their deals. It did arrive within a week though which was nice

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photoshop will run decently on anything upward of a centrino processor or higher end p4's (amd not too sure on notebooks?).

I had cs4 flash and photoshop working nicely on my old 1.7 ghz single core centrino with two gig of ram.

a core i7 in a laptop is too extreme as you lose the purpose of it being a laptop - portability as battery life would be shocking (as mentioned above).

If I was you, I would buy a new hard drive for your HP Dv2500 and reinstall windows and upgrade the ram as it would handle cs4 with no problems at all, then wait a few months, save some money and buy a mbp alternatlively sell your HP Dv2500 on ebay for about Â£150 and add that towards buying a mbp